David Ogden Stiers

David Ogden Stiers is an American actor, voice actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney animated films, the television series MASH as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the supernatural fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy. He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in the Perry Mason TV movies.

Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of Margaret Elizabeth and Kenneth Truman Stiers. He attended Urbana High School at the same time as film critic Roger Ebert. He moved to Eugene, Oregon where he graduated from North Eugene High School and briefly attended the University of Oregon. He later ventured to San Francisco, where he performed with the California Shakespeare Theater, San Francisco Actors Workshop, and the improv group The Committee, whose members included Rob Reiner and Howard Hesseman. Stiers studied at the Juilliard School . During his studies, Stiers was mentored by actor John Houseman and would later join his City Center Acting Company.

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